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I have a theory. It applies to most things in life, including life itself! Here it is, and I quote, from the RBS Meaning Of Life " Gaming wouldn’t be what it is if it wasn’t for all it’s faults" Let me explain this theory.
Gaming over the years has evolved into something great, something wonderful and something special. So what made it like this? Shiggeru Miyamoto? No. Nintendo? No. Sony? No. etc etc etc. The thing(s) that have made gaming what it is today is all that is wrong with it. Hmmmm, interesting paradox there…
If we didn’t have gaming piracy then do you think that the PlayStation would have been AS big a hit? No, of course it wouldn’t. It still would have been massive but it wouldn’t have that little extra that it does at the moment. Yeah I know I’m speaking in the present tense. The PlayStation is still going strong. So what’s the reason for that then? Well that all couples in with the topic I’m writing about.
Price of course. There would be no point whatsoever developers and publishers making these games if they didn’t get anything out of it. Would there? That’s why when the N64 first came out games like Turok were £60 each! The N64 it self cost about £300 at the start. But when Nintendo realised that they weren’t selling as many units as they had hoped they cut the price. In half. The N64 suddenly went from £300 to £150. The result? One hell of a rise in N64 unit sales. You see, the PlayStation 2, as good as it maybe, is actually rather expensive. I know I can’t afford £300. At the moment anyway :-D
So, because the PS2 costs so much people are still shelling out for the PS1 and loads of PS1 games. But of course, without these ludicrous prices slapped on anything and everything to do with gaming Sony would be in debt at the moment. Sure the PS2 has sold loads world-wide but it’s still not being bought on as big a scale as the PS1 is/was.
So, what’s next in my list of "great faults"? Ah yes. Media Hype. A topic that has been discussed many times on these forums. You see, media hype makes or breaks a game. If a magazine or website gets it’s hand on a basic code copy of a game and then says they’ve reviewed it… well, basic code doesn’t show much does it? The game would be deemed a failure. But how can hype be good? Well it sells games as I’ve said. Superman 64 is as good as example as any. 3 websites I visited said that they thought that Superman looked promising. The result of this? A crap game being in the best seller charts for about a month. So how can this be good? Well it gives the developers that little bit of money back that they put into the game. Obviously this isn’t a plus from the general publics point of view, but in the eyes of the developer it’s a major. It allows them to go on and make more games, possibly great games, from that little bit of cash they made.
Specs are next. I happen to believe that specs in a console aren’t actually all that important. If a machine is being made to play games on then does it matter how good or powerful the unit is? As long as the games are enjoyable I don’t care. I’m sure that I’m not in the minority here. But I’m also sure that, like me, some other "non-spec believers" have marvelled at how powerful the GameCube or the Xbox is going to be. Or at how realistic the graphics are going to be. Come on we’ve all done it. Haven’t we? Haven’t we? Oh, well I have. You see, no matter how powerful or well put together a games console is, if the games it’s designed for are no good then it’s going to be a major flop isn’t it. You can’t wow an audience on specs alone. You can’t sell something on the pre text that it is the best of it’s kind if you don’t have any decent proof (or games in this case) to back it up, now can you?!
Finally comes Bill Gates. If we didn’t have Bill Gates then the gaming world would be free of laughter. Watching him trying to build a console that is "as powerful as a nuclear reactor" (yeah yeah whatever) should bring a smile to any gamers face.
Thanks for wading through that
RBS
Gaming over the years has evolved into something great, something wonderful and something special. So what made it like this? Shiggeru Miyamoto? No. Nintendo? No. Sony? No. etc etc etc. The thing(s) that have made gaming what it is today is all that is wrong with it. Hmmmm, interesting paradox there…
If we didn’t have gaming piracy then do you think that the PlayStation would have been AS big a hit? No, of course it wouldn’t. It still would have been massive but it wouldn’t have that little extra that it does at the moment. Yeah I know I’m speaking in the present tense. The PlayStation is still going strong. So what’s the reason for that then? Well that all couples in with the topic I’m writing about.
Price of course. There would be no point whatsoever developers and publishers making these games if they didn’t get anything out of it. Would there? That’s why when the N64 first came out games like Turok were £60 each! The N64 it self cost about £300 at the start. But when Nintendo realised that they weren’t selling as many units as they had hoped they cut the price. In half. The N64 suddenly went from £300 to £150. The result? One hell of a rise in N64 unit sales. You see, the PlayStation 2, as good as it maybe, is actually rather expensive. I know I can’t afford £300. At the moment anyway :-D
So, because the PS2 costs so much people are still shelling out for the PS1 and loads of PS1 games. But of course, without these ludicrous prices slapped on anything and everything to do with gaming Sony would be in debt at the moment. Sure the PS2 has sold loads world-wide but it’s still not being bought on as big a scale as the PS1 is/was.
So, what’s next in my list of "great faults"? Ah yes. Media Hype. A topic that has been discussed many times on these forums. You see, media hype makes or breaks a game. If a magazine or website gets it’s hand on a basic code copy of a game and then says they’ve reviewed it… well, basic code doesn’t show much does it? The game would be deemed a failure. But how can hype be good? Well it sells games as I’ve said. Superman 64 is as good as example as any. 3 websites I visited said that they thought that Superman looked promising. The result of this? A crap game being in the best seller charts for about a month. So how can this be good? Well it gives the developers that little bit of money back that they put into the game. Obviously this isn’t a plus from the general publics point of view, but in the eyes of the developer it’s a major. It allows them to go on and make more games, possibly great games, from that little bit of cash they made.
Specs are next. I happen to believe that specs in a console aren’t actually all that important. If a machine is being made to play games on then does it matter how good or powerful the unit is? As long as the games are enjoyable I don’t care. I’m sure that I’m not in the minority here. But I’m also sure that, like me, some other "non-spec believers" have marvelled at how powerful the GameCube or the Xbox is going to be. Or at how realistic the graphics are going to be. Come on we’ve all done it. Haven’t we? Haven’t we? Oh, well I have. You see, no matter how powerful or well put together a games console is, if the games it’s designed for are no good then it’s going to be a major flop isn’t it. You can’t wow an audience on specs alone. You can’t sell something on the pre text that it is the best of it’s kind if you don’t have any decent proof (or games in this case) to back it up, now can you?!
Finally comes Bill Gates. If we didn’t have Bill Gates then the gaming world would be free of laughter. Watching him trying to build a console that is "as powerful as a nuclear reactor" (yeah yeah whatever) should bring a smile to any gamers face.
Thanks for wading through that
RBS
hang on, I titled this wrong... It should be called Great Faults, oh well, never mind
Wòókiee Møn§Ý€R wrote:
Correction, RBS!
The original PlayStation took three
> years to sell 10 million units worldwide.
PS2 has acheived that
> same figure in exactly one third of the time (launched in Japan in
> March 2000, acheiving worldwide sales of 10 million in March 2001);
> hence it is outselling the original by 3-to-1.
Whoops!
That aside... good
> post!
thanks
Correction, RBS!
The original PlayStation took three
> years to sell 10 million units worldwide.
PS2 has acheived that
> same figure in exactly one third of the time (launched in Japan in
> March 2000, acheiving worldwide sales of 10 million in March 2001);
> hence it is outselling the original by 3-to-1.
Whoops!
That aside... good
> post!
thanks
Again heard this again.
Write a lot don't you!
> Sure the PS2 has sold loads world-wide but it’s still not being
> bought on as big a scale as the PS1 is/was.
Correction, RBS!
The original PlayStation took three years to sell 10 million units worldwide.
PS2 has acheived that same figure in exactly one third of the time (launched in Japan in March 2000, acheiving worldwide sales of 10 million in March 2001); hence it is outselling the original by 3-to-1.
That aside... good post!
> bought on as big a scale as the PS1 is/was.
Correction, RBS!
The original PlayStation took three years to sell 10 million units worldwide.
PS2 has acheived that same figure in exactly one third of the time (launched in Japan in March 2000, acheiving worldwide sales of 10 million in March 2001); hence it is outselling the original by 3-to-1.
That aside... good post!
I have a theory. It applies to most things in life, including life itself! Here it is, and I quote, from the RBS Meaning Of Life " Gaming wouldn’t be what it is if it wasn’t for all it’s faults" Let me explain this theory.
Gaming over the years has evolved into something great, something wonderful and something special. So what made it like this? Shiggeru Miyamoto? No. Nintendo? No. Sony? No. etc etc etc. The thing(s) that have made gaming what it is today is all that is wrong with it. Hmmmm, interesting paradox there…
If we didn’t have gaming piracy then do you think that the PlayStation would have been AS big a hit? No, of course it wouldn’t. It still would have been massive but it wouldn’t have that little extra that it does at the moment. Yeah I know I’m speaking in the present tense. The PlayStation is still going strong. So what’s the reason for that then? Well that all couples in with the topic I’m writing about.
Price of course. There would be no point whatsoever developers and publishers making these games if they didn’t get anything out of it. Would there? That’s why when the N64 first came out games like Turok were £60 each! The N64 it self cost about £300 at the start. But when Nintendo realised that they weren’t selling as many units as they had hoped they cut the price. In half. The N64 suddenly went from £300 to £150. The result? One hell of a rise in N64 unit sales. You see, the PlayStation 2, as good as it maybe, is actually rather expensive. I know I can’t afford £300. At the moment anyway :-D
So, because the PS2 costs so much people are still shelling out for the PS1 and loads of PS1 games. But of course, without these ludicrous prices slapped on anything and everything to do with gaming Sony would be in debt at the moment. Sure the PS2 has sold loads world-wide but it’s still not being bought on as big a scale as the PS1 is/was.
So, what’s next in my list of "great faults"? Ah yes. Media Hype. A topic that has been discussed many times on these forums. You see, media hype makes or breaks a game. If a magazine or website gets it’s hand on a basic code copy of a game and then says they’ve reviewed it… well, basic code doesn’t show much does it? The game would be deemed a failure. But how can hype be good? Well it sells games as I’ve said. Superman 64 is as good as example as any. 3 websites I visited said that they thought that Superman looked promising. The result of this? A crap game being in the best seller charts for about a month. So how can this be good? Well it gives the developers that little bit of money back that they put into the game. Obviously this isn’t a plus from the general publics point of view, but in the eyes of the developer it’s a major. It allows them to go on and make more games, possibly great games, from that little bit of cash they made.
Specs are next. I happen to believe that specs in a console aren’t actually all that important. If a machine is being made to play games on then does it matter how good or powerful the unit is? As long as the games are enjoyable I don’t care. I’m sure that I’m not in the minority here. But I’m also sure that, like me, some other "non-spec believers" have marvelled at how powerful the GameCube or the Xbox is going to be. Or at how realistic the graphics are going to be. Come on we’ve all done it. Haven’t we? Haven’t we? Oh, well I have. You see, no matter how powerful or well put together a games console is, if the games it’s designed for are no good then it’s going to be a major flop isn’t it. You can’t wow an audience on specs alone. You can’t sell something on the pre text that it is the best of it’s kind if you don’t have any decent proof (or games in this case) to back it up, now can you?!
Finally comes Bill Gates. If we didn’t have Bill Gates then the gaming world would be free of laughter. Watching him trying to build a console that is "as powerful as a nuclear reactor" (yeah yeah whatever) should bring a smile to any gamers face.
Thanks for wading through that
RBS
Gaming over the years has evolved into something great, something wonderful and something special. So what made it like this? Shiggeru Miyamoto? No. Nintendo? No. Sony? No. etc etc etc. The thing(s) that have made gaming what it is today is all that is wrong with it. Hmmmm, interesting paradox there…
If we didn’t have gaming piracy then do you think that the PlayStation would have been AS big a hit? No, of course it wouldn’t. It still would have been massive but it wouldn’t have that little extra that it does at the moment. Yeah I know I’m speaking in the present tense. The PlayStation is still going strong. So what’s the reason for that then? Well that all couples in with the topic I’m writing about.
Price of course. There would be no point whatsoever developers and publishers making these games if they didn’t get anything out of it. Would there? That’s why when the N64 first came out games like Turok were £60 each! The N64 it self cost about £300 at the start. But when Nintendo realised that they weren’t selling as many units as they had hoped they cut the price. In half. The N64 suddenly went from £300 to £150. The result? One hell of a rise in N64 unit sales. You see, the PlayStation 2, as good as it maybe, is actually rather expensive. I know I can’t afford £300. At the moment anyway :-D
So, because the PS2 costs so much people are still shelling out for the PS1 and loads of PS1 games. But of course, without these ludicrous prices slapped on anything and everything to do with gaming Sony would be in debt at the moment. Sure the PS2 has sold loads world-wide but it’s still not being bought on as big a scale as the PS1 is/was.
So, what’s next in my list of "great faults"? Ah yes. Media Hype. A topic that has been discussed many times on these forums. You see, media hype makes or breaks a game. If a magazine or website gets it’s hand on a basic code copy of a game and then says they’ve reviewed it… well, basic code doesn’t show much does it? The game would be deemed a failure. But how can hype be good? Well it sells games as I’ve said. Superman 64 is as good as example as any. 3 websites I visited said that they thought that Superman looked promising. The result of this? A crap game being in the best seller charts for about a month. So how can this be good? Well it gives the developers that little bit of money back that they put into the game. Obviously this isn’t a plus from the general publics point of view, but in the eyes of the developer it’s a major. It allows them to go on and make more games, possibly great games, from that little bit of cash they made.
Specs are next. I happen to believe that specs in a console aren’t actually all that important. If a machine is being made to play games on then does it matter how good or powerful the unit is? As long as the games are enjoyable I don’t care. I’m sure that I’m not in the minority here. But I’m also sure that, like me, some other "non-spec believers" have marvelled at how powerful the GameCube or the Xbox is going to be. Or at how realistic the graphics are going to be. Come on we’ve all done it. Haven’t we? Haven’t we? Oh, well I have. You see, no matter how powerful or well put together a games console is, if the games it’s designed for are no good then it’s going to be a major flop isn’t it. You can’t wow an audience on specs alone. You can’t sell something on the pre text that it is the best of it’s kind if you don’t have any decent proof (or games in this case) to back it up, now can you?!
Finally comes Bill Gates. If we didn’t have Bill Gates then the gaming world would be free of laughter. Watching him trying to build a console that is "as powerful as a nuclear reactor" (yeah yeah whatever) should bring a smile to any gamers face.
Thanks for wading through that
RBS